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On the distribution of adjectives in Romanian : the cel construction [PDF]

, 2008
This paper deals with the variable position of adjectives in the Romanian DP. As all other Romance languages, Romanian allows for adjectives to appear in both prenominal and post-nominal position.
Alexiadou, Artemis, Marchis, Mihaela
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Il clitico espletivo nell’occitano della Provincia di Cuneo

Géolinguistique
This study analyses, according to a qualitative rather than a quantitative model, the use of the expletive clitic la in the Occitan spoken in the province of Cuneo, considering various contexts that have been examined in previous studies of northern ...
Mattia Ravera, Nicola Duberti
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A Corpus Study of Mexican Spanish Three-Participant Constructions with and without Clitic Doubling

Linguistic Discovery, 2012
In Spanish verbs associated with three participants – Agent, Theme and Recipient – may appear in alternating constructions, where the 3rd person recipient argument is realized as a prepositional phrase (PP) (Pedro envió una carta a Mar ...
Chiyo Nishida
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VP-fronting in Czech and Polish : a case study in corpus-oriented grammar research [PDF]

, 2005
Fronting of an infinite VP across a finite main verb - akin to German "VP-topicalization" - can be found also in Czech and Polish. The paper discusses evidence from large corpora for this process and some of its properties, both syntactic and information-
Meyer, Roland
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The origins of the Romance analytic passive : evidence from word order [PDF]

, 2017
This chapter argues that despite formal resemblances, Latin perfect tense BE-periphrases of the type amatus sum ‘I was loved’ are not the historical source of Romance present tense passives like Italian sono amato and French je suis aimé (both meaning ‘I
Danckaert, Lieven
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Dative by genitive replacement in the Greek language of the papyri: a diachronic account of case semantics [PDF]

, 2015
Semantic analysis of the prenominal first person singular genitive pronoun (μου) in the Greek of the documentary papyri shows that the pronoun is typically found in the position between a verbal form and an alienable possessum which functions as the ...
Stolk, Joanne Vera
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Is This (Becoming) a Theory of Second Language Acquisition?: A Commentary on “Complexity and Difficulty in Second Language Acquisition: A Theoretical and Methodological Overview”

Language Learning, Volume 75, Issue 2, Page 590-593, June 2025.
Jonas Granfeldt (he/him)
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Low applicatives and optional se in Spanish non-anticausative intransitive verbs

Revista de Lingüística y Lenguas Aplicadas, 2013
This work revolves around a very peculiar set of Spanish verbs (‘caer[se]’, ‘morir[se]’, ‘tropezar[se]’ and ‘encallar[se]’), which optionally allow the clitic ‘se’ without any significant change of meaning.
Ismael Iván Teomiro García
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ERRORS BY AUTO-MORPHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS IN A CHILDREN STORY CORPUS: AN EVALUATION OF MORPHIND PROGRAM [PDF]

, 2017
Indonesian Morphological Tool, Morphind, is meant to make a proper morphological analysis before doing further automatic language processing.Morphind is applied to enrich raw Indonesian text with morphological information, the preprocessing stage of an ...
Alfiani, Noveka Erviana Nur
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Weak function word shift [PDF]

, 2004
The fact that object shift only affects weak pronouns in mainland Scandinavian is seen as an instance of a more general observation that can be made in all Germanic languages: weak function words tend to avoid the edges of larger prosodic domains.
Vogel, Ralf
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